Palestine Action activist says jury verdicts were vindication of cause

Fatema Rajwani said it was clear to the jury that ‘our only intention was to dismantle weapons being used in a genocide’. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The youngest of six Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israeli defence firm’s UK site has said the verdicts were a vindication of their cause.

After 18 months in jail, Fatema Rajwani, 21, was released on bail last Wednesday, having also been acquitted by a jury at Woolwich crown court of violent disorder in relation to the raid on the Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024.